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Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-15
NINETEEN YEARS OF FRAUD,
An Old Nan Who Has Robbed the
Government of $4,000 Through
Pensions.

For nineteen years an old man has been
d%efrauding the government by collecting
pensions for soldiers widows long since
dead. He was known in Cleveland, Ohio
as James Fl. McGindley, James Harvey,
j, H. Martin, L. Carpenter and H. B.
Mason. He went to Cleveland over a year
ago and since then has been conducting q
clearinghouse and saloon in the SUBJ
urbs.
Two weeks ago Pension Commissioner
Black discovered that many widow pen
sioners who formerly lived at Quincy, ILL.,,
had apparently removed to Toronto, Cam,
and that James McGindley was attorney
for all of them.
A special examiner went to Canada,
where he learned that not one of the al
legged widows lived either in Toronto or
anywhere else, as they had died years be-
fore. The examiner learned that pen
sions drafts had been sent to McGindley
at Chicago, and he went. In Chicago he
discovered that drafts had been RENTED
TO Cleveland, n to Newburg and the
other to Brooklyn station. He came here
at Newburg station and asked for and
received a Chicago letter directed to
Henry B. Mason. He was arrested, and
the letter was found to contain one of the
pensions drafts. The other draft was re-
covered at Brooklyn station.
McGindley was held in 81, 900 bonds and
sent to jail. He has confessed. Pension
officers say tEat he has received at least
$40, 900 from the public treasure by means
of his scheme. He is 60 years old and it is
believed has lived in Illinois and other
Western States,
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-15
A NOTED FAKE DEAD.
A Well.knOwn Prestidigitateur
Dies in Syracuse How He
Learned His rick


SYRACUSE, Oct. 1.-The funeral of Ed.
die Winger yesterday morning from st.
Joseph's French Catholic Church was very
largely attended, the accomplished young
fakir having an extened circle of acquaint-
ances. Young Winger picked up all he
knew. He was an ingenious fellow, handy
with tools, and made all sorts of boxes
with false bottoms and invisible draw
ers, whereby he extracted doves eggs
and the like from empty place, and vice
versa make them disappear in a manner
altogether unaccountable and mysterious to
the rustic eye. He used to say that if he
had the means and appliances he could not
only duplicate every thing that Hermann
and other celebrities did, but could per-
form tricks that would eclipse the best of
theirs. He talked in a vague way of GER
tain conceptions of his own which would
make him famous as a prestidigitateur as
soon as he got the money to carry out his
plans. He practised ventriloquism until he
was a success at it in his limited way. He
BUSINESS in the drollest style, and when the
snake. charmer got drunk be could handle
the stupefed reptiles with a skill and dar-
ing inferior to nobody's. Besides his other
accomplishments he had a loud voice and
a rapid style of utterance, and whenever
he mounted a chair at the outside of the
tent door to howl forth the list of brilliant
and fascinating attractions within, only
those rival showmen who possessed the
most extraordinary lungs could out-shout
him. He was familiar with all the ups and
downs of the business, and was as jolly and
bright when dead broke in a strange town
a hundred miles away from home as when
he found himself a hundred dollars ahead
at the close of a successful county fair.
One of the;last of his engagements was with
a man named Tuck, who travelled through
the State in the winter of 1851 with a
museum Of living curiosities.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-15
A NEW FAD FOR WOMEN.
The Old.FashiOHed ReficuIes of
Our GrandmOthers' Day Coming
into Fashion.

1t is understood that opera-glass bags
and the dainty little plush pockets for the
handke. chiefs that our bellies have for the
past year been wont to carry about with
them are to be superseded this season by
the regular old-fashioned r~eticules that our
grandmothers used to delight in. And. in.
deed, this fashion will certainly prove 4
charming one in many ways. A fashion.
abba woman nowadays is obliged to take so
many indispensable articles about with her
that it is absolutely necessary to have some
convenient receptacle in which to stow
them so that they shall be near at hand
Ordinary dress pockets are becoming al.
most obsolete, principally because modistes
will persist in putting them in such out.of.
the-way places that it is impossible to gain
access to them. Who has not seen some
unfortunate woman in the midst of a
crowded assem- bly,, a theater or a street
car, for instance, rise from her seat and
perform all sorts of acrobatic contortions
IN the vain attempt to find her pocket and
e%xtrIcate therefrom her handkerchief or
smelling bottle Everybody will surely
welcome u grandmothers' r~eticules az a
pleasing change. OF course one must nos.
sess as many reticules as gowns, satin and
silk ones to match evening toilets and
others of more sober cast for shonninp
purposes. They may be ornamented with
lace and flowers or fur and feathers. and
they may contain anything from a batiste
handkerchief to the latest design ia enamel
bon-bon boxes, At any rate, every woman
of taste will admit that from an aesthetic
point Of view any kind of r~eticule. even
one OF the plainest pattern, will be prefer.
able to those monstresities in leather called
shopping bags, and which are to be placed
the same category as ulsters and rubber
cloaks. "'O0i
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-15
A Static.
A Drunken millionaire Eyicts
Venus for NOnpayment Of Rom

There is a millionaire quite close at hand
within whose gardens fair several stat,es
stand. Apollo smiles out there. .Jnno and
Jupiter, Castor and Pollux pair with
hand in hand. In addition to these tbero
is Venus and many others toe numerous or
indelicate to mention. For wears tb;s
Olympian collection has evoked adm;ra9
ton, and attention has been drawn To the
possessor as a man who values the prpcio,S
in art and spends his money in promotino
the taste for the Greek slaye-I mean
Greek art. He has or had a lovely statna
of Venus, and Venus used to stand in q
modest, deprecatory attitude in the Garden
and endure all sorts of inspection. T neal
scarcely say that Venus could not be Looked
at without conflicting emotions. which an.
counted for her popularity. Well. one
night the millionaire had been ont at an
Irish home rule meeting and he had i'm
bibed some very strong arguments. He
to say the least of it, rather confused
in his mind and unsteady on his feet. As
he wandered through the garden to find
the front door of the house, which he was
to believe was taken inside for the
his eyes fell on Venus. Time was
object. He stood and gazed at the
statue of beauty a long time. Then he
up and shook his fist at it.
LOOK here, Venus, it Just occurs to
you've been here fourteen years and
never paid a cent rent. You'd bet.
er get out of this"
And he pitched Venus off her pedestal,
.yer the garden wall.-San Francisco
chronicle.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-15
srRANaE CONFESSION.
why the london Society Journals
Attack American Ladies'.

Some OF the society papers make a great
feature of attacks on the American ele-
mem in London society. There are two
or three of the society papers which never
miss an opportunity of saying unkind
and severe things about American ladies
in London. They are never weary
of representing them crazy after
royalty, court favor, and eager in
striving to make acquaintance with
titled people. One of the o~stenest
repeated stories is that American women
come in great crowds to be presented at
court, and that it requires the united eff
forts of the Lord Chamberlain and the
United States Minister to restrain this
mob.
met the editor of one of the society
papers the other day and l asked him
where he got all of his wonderful facts
about American women. His reply was a
strange confession. "Yoa would not sup
| pose,' said he, "that l am a great admirer
of American women. I think they are the
most agreeable and attractive class of Ia
dies in the world. l go almost entirely
with Americans in London. l would not
sit down and talk with an Englishwomen
of any type except under compulsion.
Englishwomen are too dull and common
placed. I prefer the society of Ameri-
| cen women. Next to them in vivacity and
| ag~reeableness I rank the French and the
Irish ladies'" But why are you always
criticising them so severely in your pa.
| pers?" 60" was his reply, "The
American women do not read my papers.
1t is a paper gotten up for Englishwomen.
l discovered some time ago that English
women are very jealous of the prominence
given to American ladies in London soci-
ETY., so l began this kind of running fire
upon the fair invaders of the most sacred
p~reciencts of London society, and the re-
suit is an enormous increase in my circula-
ton. Every dull, heavy minded English.
woman believes that it is the presence OF
these American women in society which
prevents her from receiving her.due share
of attention, and consequently she reads
with great pleasure all of these attacks
upon her successful rivals. The circulation
of my paper has nearly doubled SINCE I
have adopted this innocent fad of poking
fun at and criticising the American women
in London."-London Letter.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-15
ARE IINCOLN'S FIRST FIGHT.
Incidents of His BOyhOOd Days
In Illinois.

AHAhhhOASs
There does not live in the United States
to-day one who was so actively associated
with the martyred Lincoln as John White,
who lives down the Bishop branch, town
of Viroqua. While in the Censor office
the other day Mr.. White related many
amusing incidents of his boyhood day in
Illinois, when he and Lincoln were fast
friends, split rails, did surveying and went
to husking bees together. Lincoln was
his senior by a number of years, and for
that reason the every act of the lamented
President remains fresh in the memory of
Mr.. White. 81 remember WE'LL" said he,
"when the bully of Sangamon county,
introduced by some good natured wag,
came to the spot where we were chopping
The great, brawny boy laughed and
drawled out, 'Ireckon, stranger, you're
after the wrong man. l never fit in my
whole life,'
But the bully made for Abe and the first
fall Lincoln came down on top of the heap.
The champion was bruisipg and causing
blood to flow down Lincoln's face when a
happy mode of warfare entered his orig
inal brain. He quickly thrust his hands
into a convenient bunch of smart weed
and rubbed the same in the eyes of his
opponent, who almost Immediately begged
for mercy. He was released, but his sight
for the time being was extinct. No mem
Der of the trio possessed a pocket handker-
chief, so Lincoln with originality, tore
from his own shirt front the surplus cloth,
washed and bandaged the fellows optics
and sent him home. I was also resent at
the first lawsuit he ever conducted in justice
court. Here served him well the in.
exhaustible supply eff original ideas and
ways which characterized his past and fu-
ture life. In boyhood days he was as true
to his friends as his great career proved
him to be to his country. "-Viroqua wis
Cancnr
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-15

The occupants of adjacent chairs had mean
while become interested, and were watch
ing the vigorous wine-drinker with the
keenest interest. Apparently satisfied
with himself, he called for a 1O.cent cigar
and pulled away contentedly. When he got
ready to go he handed the waiter q quarter.
The Teutonic beer-slinger gazed at the
piece of silver, and then at the country
man, in undisguised amazement:
Haven't you forgotten the cham
pagne?" said he. 49,,
"Certainly not. Take it out of the
quarter" eibly answered the young man:
The waiter ATTEMPTED to explain that
champagne was not a fve.cent drink, but
the innocent granger would have none OF
it. Then the proprietor appeared on the
scene, and in terms that stirred VI, the
stagnant waters of the river, demanded the
reason of the mans conduct. The embar-
raised would-be blood pleaded Ignorance
of the rules of high society, paid his bill
retired to hide his confession from the
amused crowd. The proprietor them par
alyzed everybody by setting up the drinks
all around. Sentinel.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-15

A Glimpse nj Her Surroundings N
the Wife OF Sarsosis.

The Sartoris home is not far from the
English seaport of Southampton and off to
the right can be seen Cowes, with its har-
Dor full of sailing yachts and the richest
pleasure craft of all descriptions. The
boats of the royalty, Albert and Victoria,
which is at the bidding of the Prince of
Wales, lie at anchor in these waters. The
r~eigning house of Britain sails in and out
of this harbor every day when in this 10.
cality in tie yellow-painted and curiously-
decked craft which are called royal yachts.
Beautiful boats they are and georgeously
fitted up. Both of them carry crews
equal to that on Iii ocean steamer that
has the capacity of a thousand souls.
They are kept constantly in commission
to do the bidding of the sovereign and her
SON. In these waters, too, the Royal
Yacht Club has its home, and the swell
races between the boats and other phases
of high social life make things very fash
ionable and lively about here. But social
life, as the world knows and feels it in
this locality, does not interrupt the even
tenor of the Sartoris home.
Nellie Grant is the mistress of this home
now, for the elder Mrs. Sartoris is dead.
The master is the father of the singular
SOL, who married this splendid American
girl, who so worthilv bore a great name.
The husband, having large interests in
Wales, is rarely at home, and the father
devotes himself to the care of his sons
children and his wife's happiness. The
elder Sartoris is a man of culture and re-
inement, devoted to music, painting and
literature. He has means, and not only
surrounds himself with a home air of art
and refinement, but with those who deal
in the finer touches of existence. His
daughter-in-law lives in an atmosphere of
the higher order. There are rich paint.
ings in the halls and on the parlor walls,
music of every description is in the draw
ing-rooms, and books of the rarest quality
are in the library.
The farm is ample, well laid out and
cultivated. The house is an old building
| with two centuries of history about it.
| The proprietor has added some new fea-
lures to the architecture of the main
building. and it is ample now to house
the great troop of friends who frequently
come here to enjoy the good taste of the
proprietor. The grounds are beautifully
laid out and decorated. There are acres
and acres Of lawn and pasture, and many
more acres of flowers, shrubbery and shade.
| Graveled walks laid in and out between
the rows of great trees, which run in every
direction, and tasteful flower beds dot the
whole slope from the house to the river.
Letter in N. Y. World.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-15

A Tale That May Soon BE ON Many
Tongues.

sacramento Bee.
The Indications are that another sensa-
tional divorce case will be instituted in this
city. The prospective plaintiff is a clerk
in one of the leading mercantile houses.
A few years ago he was welded to a young
lady who had been an employee in the same
establishment. She was a large and snowy
woman, and instead of matrimony having
a settling down " influence upon her, it
had just the reverse effect. She bleachea
her hair, pinned her fashy apparel back
with sufficient tightness to display the out.
lines of a robust form, and was a frequent
attraction Oh Sacramento's principal boule-
wards. A month or so ago she went On
what was deemed a visit to San Francisco.
The story goes that after she had been at
the breezy bay for several weeks her hus.
band went after her. He found her in
stalled in rooms, and when he intimated
that it was about time for her to return
home, she rather gineerly concurred. The
husband then went out upon the streets,
and when he returned to his wife's spart.
ments she was not there. On a table, how.
ever, was a missive in her writing, in which
she conveyed the information to her
| a%stounded husband that she had decided
not to return to Sacramento; that she had
found a man whom she loved better, and
who could support her in the fine style in
| which she desired to live. The husband
returned to Sacramento, leaving his wife
at the Bay, where she is said to be now in
stalled in sumptuous apartments on a
prominent street. The object of her latest
affections is said to be a former resident of
this county, who has himself been the hero
in a most sensational divorce suit, and
which is yet before the courts. He is a
patron of fast horses, and on almost any
fine day his new-found hame may be seen
driving one of his blooded and feet.footed
animals out toward the Cliff House. The
woman is just now living in the FOOLS para
disc, and will doubtless occupy that ephe-
neral realm until the debonair young man
has wearied of her-which may not be
long. She is said to have had a most kind
and ~indulgent husband, and her many
acquaintance in this city are greatly sur
| prised at her conduct.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-15
w..x su. COMES BACK.

when she comes back III want to Know
Athing or two she has not told ne
WHY. when ct last l had to go,
she made no fond attempt to hold me-
why she from town so long csn stay
much would like to learn the reason'
And why, with me so far away,
she fingers out the Newport season.
wbep she comes back I'll want to know
A thing or two not in her letters
why should my notes be longed for SO
when still | wait ten days to get net'
She vowed she never could be false,
That love to her was all entranclng-
Bnt more. | think, she loves the waltz,
And mostly spends her tim in dancing
when she comes back I'll want to know
A think or two that she has hidden
WHY. when l wrote Of such 8 woe
of loneliness my gloom was cnlooen,
She warns me Of the various spells
OF woman's witchery to bind me-
But not a single word she tells
About the men 1 left behind me.
When she comes back I'll want to know
A thing or two she has neglected,
Her missives have an easy How,
But do not flow as I expected
Who takes the place one filed by me
Who fans her when the winds are iaie'
Who waits upon her beck at tea! ,-
WHO nUluS hcE WINES
When she comes back I'll want to know
thing or two she does not mention
That funny man whose puns were low,
That captain with the hslf pay pension
That curate with his tea and toast,
With eyebrows drab and whiskefs yeuow,
That midshipman-Ifear him most,
She called him NICE a killing fellow.
When she comes back I'll want to know
A =. ku-. oha Il aS NOT Urrittpn.
For now she only bids me go
To visit folks I find no wit in,
She says 1 must stop drinking wine,
She says my hours are most PROVOKING
She saws I must retire at nine,
She says l mustrelinquish smoking
When she comes back I'll want to know
thing or two not in her letters
Yet the dear creature holds me so
Entangled in loves w~ttching letters,
That when We meet, three weeks from low,
Aad her red lips turn up to kiss me,
Ny only question then l VOW,
Shall be-Sweet heart. did you not miss me
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-15

Mike Kelly.

During an interview with Porter Ash,
over horse racing, Mr.. Ash said the fol.
lowing to a reporter concerning Mike
Kelly, a Grass Valley, Cal. born and
raised boy:
"By the way, I cannot say too much of
Kelly, my rider, though he is barely 81
years of age. I attribute much of success
on the track to his good Judgment. He is
the only jockey who ever put a leg over
Geraldine, and he has won for her races
where the odds were greatly against her.
He is just as good a trainer as a rider, and
is making for himself a reputation in the
East second equal to that of the best of
them. He is a California boy, and 1 am
well contented to leave my stable to his
sole charge."-G. V. Union.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-15
CHAMPAGNE FOR A NICKEL,
An Exhibition of Freshness In q
MiIwauke ZEE Restaurant.

"Have you any champagne?'
The questioner was an awkward looking
fellow, apparently from the country; the
place a well known Grand avenue restau.
rant, and time early Saturday evening.
Upon being answered in the affirmative he
asked:
"Do you sell it by the glass;"
"No, sir; by the BOTTLE" replied the
waiter.
mAI right. Please give me a BOTTLE"
The young mar took a seat and the wine
was brought and uncorked in his pres.
ence. Filling his glass after the manner
of a man emptying a bottle of beer, he
hesitatingly raised it to his lips; then, after
a moments consideration, he blew the
froth from it, and swallowed the contents
with one gulp. 1t was SO good that he re.
peated the dose until the bottle was empty.
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1887-10-15
UNREsERvED DEPRAvIrY.
A Shameless Young Man Claims
Marital Relations with an Aban'
dOned woman of 40.

doned woman of 40.
Virginia Enterprise.
The articles which have appeared in
the Enterprise with regard to the colored
man Gaines, who rented houses to lewd
women, have had q salutary effect. The
police have quietly broken up two or three
establishments around town, where easy
virtue was clothed with the shadow of re-
~spectability by proximity. "The easiest
way is the best" and it was not a Diff
cult matter to remove such women to
their allotted precincts, as but few care to
be removed through the intervention of
Justice Kehoe.
Last week the police removed an old
pioneer named Kittie Mitchell, who vas a
%reigning belle in the "Grecian Bend" in
the days of '49, from d street, south of
Union, to the north of that street. A few
days later she returned to the forbidden
precicnt, and the cops nailed her and took
her to the jail. They also went for the
man who owned the premises she in
habited, but he set up a defense that a
young man had rented the place, and he
knew nothing about the woman being
there. While a conversation was carried
on at the jail between Kitty, the londlord
and the officers, a young man entered
and his name should be published, but he
is given a show to "tumble out of regard
for his father and shamelessly claimed
this m as his wife. Chief Henderson
told him it wouldn't work, and he had
better walk a straight line. This enraged
the young man, and he commenced inquir-
ing about procuring a license to marry the
woman.
He is a strong, able-bodied young man.
and has a good trade. He is also indus
trious, and has heretofore carried a good
name, and for those reasons, and in the
hope that he will realize the insanity of
his i~nfaluation, his name is withheld. If
he has a spark of manhood left he will go
and bury himself in a foreign cline.